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As an adult, Wilson shared none of Roosevelt’s lust for violent conquest. For his secretary of state he chose William Jennings…

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They resounded in the administration’s respect for the “international community,” a grouping that included North Korea, Pakistan, and Sudan, and which many Israelis considered an oxymoron.

THE WAR HAD PROFOUND political ramifications, as well. As early as November 13, 1973, Menachem Begin attacked both Golda Meir and the government in the Knesset for what he said was their incompetent handling of the war. Begin had been relegated to the opposition for decades, but now Israelis were listening. Even more damaging to the Labor Party’s h

“It has long been true,” he began, “that the greatest obstacle to the success of democratic socialism in the United States has been the extremism of some of its allies. Nothing could have exemplified this unfortunate fact more clearly than my colleague’s speech tonight. The propensity to damage the progressive cause by calling for the physical exte

‘Don’t start. What do you want?’ ‘England’s in peril.’ Lancelot levels a muddy finger across the park. ‘It’s not the Falklands again, is it? I should have thought I was perfectly clear about that last time. The Falklands aren’t part of England, and they never have been. They’re well outside my purview.’

Behind the scenes, meanwhile, Bolsonaro’s sons and their associates continued to press an ideological agenda that fairly soon found them in conflict with the more pragmatic elements of the government, whether military or civilian. Israel was one such issue. The ideologues favoured moving the Brazilian embassy to Jerusalem, just as Trump had done, i

The United States entered the war on the British side in 1917, and President Woodrow Wilson declared that the principle of self-determination should govern any postwar reorganization of territories that were formerly controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

Sharon’s successor, Ehud Olmert, the former mayor of Jerusalem, declared his intention to hand over the majority of Palestinian territories in the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority. Unlike some of his predecessors, Olmert was asserting that a Palestinian state could be established before many of the thorniest issues in the negotiations would b

The hot-potato game over the presidency finally ended with the selection by Congress of Senator Eduardo Duhalde, the Peronists' candidate in the 1999 presidential election. Then came the long-expected but nonetheless seismic shift: At Duhalde's behest, Congress approved legislation on January 6, 2002, ending the convertibility system and fixing the